About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. The places change, but many of the players and the purpose remain the same. Like Julian Assange denouncing the nation-state, industry hotshots speak of these activities in a tone that is at once self-congratulatory and dismissive of criticism. Their behavior at these high-end parties is an extension of the progressiveness and open-mindedness—the audacity, if you will—that make founders think they can change the world.

She claims she has slept with 25, men in her lifetime, which is a few thousand people short of Wanderers Stadium at full capacity. The most men she has had sex with in one day, she says, is I don't share it with anyone else," Susan says.

Peter Stringfellow is about to open a club in Ireland. It's the kind of dinner party you are unlikely to forget in a hurry. Across the circular table, perched on his trademark throne, is the king of the British nightclub scene, Peter Stringfellow.

Sally was a very attractive thirty four year old housewife, she was married to Bruce, a successful businessman, they had two children, Aaron fifteen and Annmarie, fourteen. Now he wanted to up the ante, he wanted her to fuck a black man, Sally had been brought up in predominately white upper class area and rarely mixed with black people. She was a chubby thing with greasy hair and Sally guessed she was probably keeping him.

November 1, pm Updated November 6, pm. A tourist has lifted the lid on a debauched sex island vacation where Brits and Americans party with Colombian hookers and use experimental drugs. Ryan, 33, a dentist from New York, revealed how the orgies began just minutes after the 30 guests boarded a luxury yacht taking them and 60 hookers to the private tropical island.

They don't teach this on journalism courses. Nathan Jones, 19, was offered a job on the staff of a national newspaper after organising an orgy involving a page three girl and 20 of the paper's readers. Other unusual tasks for Jones included wrestling naked with a stone lesbian, eating live maggots and lighting "a firework sticking out of a circus performer's bum".